Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 17th 1875

  • Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 17th 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Statistics of Insanity. Tasre IX. Movement 4 d Proportion of Female among the P. tion of Female : Indanet AT Ist JANUARY Paupers to every 100 levery400 Male Pauper Increased Male Paupers. Lunatics. number of admissions into Esta- 1865, . 4 : : 283°3 ; 1177 blishments. 1866, . = . é - 281°4 117°3 1867) Yihy _AAIaEs, . SA. 281°1 116°5 ES TE GME ME AE oe 277°3 116°6 1869, . a ‘ : 270°3 115°6 1870, . : 4 3 : 260°5 116°6 ABIL IG FOU, Shy LOE Oe 262°4 116°2 TE 261°5 116°5 187394 OF bow git f 2605 115°4 1874, . Fs ; 2 ‘ 266°0 117°9 Table X. shows the number of the insane placed in Establish- ments in 1858, and in each of the ten years 1865-1874, distinguish- ing between males and females, and between private and pauper patients :— TABLE X. Numbers placed in Establishments, excluding Transfers. Private. Pauper. General Total. Male. | Female.) Total. | Male. | Female. . | Male. {Female. | Total. 1858 193 | 213 | 406 | 4361! 606 629 | 819 | 1448 1865 198 | 221 419 | 484] 559 682 | 780 | 1462 1866 235 | 210] 445 | 538 | 585 773 | 795 | 1568 1867 210 |. 235} 4451] 597 663 807 | 898 | 1705 1868 182 | 215 | 397 628 | 691 810 | 906 | 1716 1869 219 218 437 666 800 885 | 1018 | 1903 1870 208 | 223] 431] 607] 750 815 | 973 | 1788 1871 227 | 2541] 481 647 | 708 874 | 962 | 1836 1872 1851) 197 |) $82.) 701 783 886 | 980 | 1866 1873 201 256 | 457 | 7401 902 941 | 1158 | 2099 1874 200 | 228 | 428 828 949 | 1056 | 2005 AVERAGE OF 1865-74. 206 | 226 |, 432 727 842 | 953 | 1795 It thus appears that on an average of the ten years 1865-1874, of every hundred patients sent to Asylums, 24:1 were private, and 759 pauper.